Hand targeting to teach offered arm for blood testing. The brush is the sensory target, as soon as she touches the brush I TAG and reinforce by stroking the offerd arm in position with the brush. Then I raise the criteria where Tink has put her arm over my hand to touch the target. The TAGpoint is Tinks elbow to my hand. I reinforce the same way as before in position. The next TAGpoint is me holding her arm again TAG this and reinforce in position by stroking hand with brush. Then I just build up the duration of me holding Tinks arm.

Just a random video observing Tink over 4 minutes. 3 years ago a video the same length would of just showed her rocking, clapping and rubbing her hands. That brush or ball would have had no interest to her. She certainly wouldn’t of looked at me.

Tink has now got the concept of “push”. She is now generalising this skill and has realised if she pushes something it moves (especialy other children). Now is the time to teach her some appropriate social behaviours.